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SUNY pushes “Mask Up or Pack Up” campaign

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Reading Time: 2 minutesOLIVIA BEILEIN  Special to The Leader  As students returned to SUNY campuses this semester, many wondered what there was to hold for the new semester following the COVID-19 pandemic that sent many home in the spring. SUNY chancellor Jim Malatas has launched a “Mask Up or Pack up” campaign to......
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Donald and Melania Trump test positive for COVID-19

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Reading Time: 2 minutesJAMES MEAD Managing Editor [Updated 10:03 a.m., Oct. 2] At 12:54 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 2, President Donald Trump announced that he and First Lady Melania Trump had tested positive for COVID-19. In a Tweet, he said, “Tonight, @FLOTUS and I tested positive for COVID-19. We will begin our quarantine......
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Fredonia ResLife cracks down on enforcing dorm visitation policies

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Reading Time: 3 minutesCHLOE KOWALYK Special to The Leader  As Fredonia continues to allow students to live in dorms and continue in-person instruction, new guidelines have been set in place to ensure the safety of on-campus students.  As of last Friday, students may only enter residence halls from the front door.  Card readers......
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[Column] This week in COVID

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Reading Time: 3 minutesALISA OPPENHEIMER  News Editor If you’ve taken a look at Fredonia’s COVID-19 dashboard lately, you may have noticed some changes.  On Sept. 24, President Kolison sent out a campus-wide email, which discussed various topics, one of them being the newly revised COVID-19 dashboard for our school.  The local dashboard has......
Opinion

What it’s like to be a freshman in college during a global pandemic

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Reading Time: 3 minutesCHLOE KOWALYK Special to The Leader  The outbreak of COVID-19 hit me just as hard as I’m sure it hit all of you.  It was as if everything had fallen to the ground, shattering into pieces. Each piece was a memory that would not be made — our final musical,......
Sports

COVID’s impact on college sports

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Reading Time: 2 minutesIVAN TORRES Special to The Leader Over the past several months, COVID-19 has impacted the U.S. in a multitude of ways — from colleges shutting their campuses down, to people being required to wear masks in public. But how has this contagious disease impacted collegiate sports as a whole? First,......
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[Column] This week in COVID

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Reading Time: 3 minutesALISA OPPENHEIMER  News Editor  As we head into our fifth week of classes, Fredonia’s total number of positive cases has increased from 89 on Monday, Sept. 14, to 96 total positive cases at the time of publication.  According to the Fredonia COVID-19 dashboard, there are nine active student cases, and......
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Welcome to Hendrix: A firsthand account of quarantine at SUNY Fredonia

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Reading Time: 8 minutesJAMES MEAD Managing Editor Lauren Jenkins is a first-year student at SUNY Fredonia. Coming to Fredonia from out-of-state, she was excited to get out of her house and experience college. Yet four weeks later, she had to be quarantined. She followed all of the safety guidelines — masks on campus,......

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